Mom’s Blueberry Muffin Recipe

½ c. butter, melted
½ c. milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp. baking powder
2 c. flour
1½ c. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2½ c. blueberries

Mix all dry ingredients. Then milk, eggs, butter, and ½ c. blueberries (mashed). Stir in the rest of the blueberries (whole). Grease & flour muffin pan. Fill to the top with muffin mix. Sprinkle with sugar. Cook at 375° for 25-30 minutes.

Your Valentine’s Day Personality is Practical

Your Valentine’s Day Personality is Practical

As far as you’re concerned, Valentine’s Day is simply a commercial holiday. You don’t place any real meaning on it. You don’t think it deserves too much celebration. For you, Valentine’s Day is just the day you avoid restaurants and candy stores. If you love someone, you already show it. You don’t need to go all out for a silly holiday to prove your love.

What’s Your Valentine’s Day Personality?

I am the Cool Nerd Queen. Bow to me!

Sometimes I’m a Geek; Sometimes I’m Dense About Techie Stuff.

Today I’m the latter.  I can’t seem to figure out how to get an About Me section in my sidebar, preferably one that will also show my avatar.  I know this is something I had when I had a WordPress blog hosted on my domain, but I’ve gone through a dozen themes and messed with widgets and whatnot and can’t seem to figure it out.  Is it because I’ve switched to a free blog and can’t customize my theme the way I used to be able to?  Or am I *really* missing something obvious?

It’s not really a big deal, though, totally something I can live without.  I’m just curious.  

And speaking of my decline in geekiness… after switching hosts and upgrading to more space for Last Remnants, I have done absolutely nothing with the site.  I set up a gallery and uploaded some photos, but that was weeks ago and I’ve done nothing since.  I just haven’t been in the mood, really, which is a bummer because the plan was to use it as a semi-professional gallery and/or photoblog.  Maybe I’ve just put it on the back-burner because I really don’t know what I’m planning to do as far as trying to sell some of my prints is concerned.  

Ideally, I’d just market myself locally — contact local vendors about hanging a few framed prints in their business, possibly make up greeting cards or something — and use the website to show people a wider selection and field custom orders… but, eh, even that’s a little too much work for me right now.  I’ve looked into various sites that allow you to sell your prints over the web, but just haven’t been all that impressed and would rather start out selling locally to get a feel for it.  Maybe I’ll figure it out once I get settled into the new job and can see what kind of time I’ll have to do that on the side. 

Meanwhile (is this TMI?  Oh well), because I’m a chick and my body is designed to hate me, I’ve been PMSy for two weeks now.  So that means two weeks and counting of low self-esteem and heightened perfectionism.  Combined, that just means I’ve spent two weeks setting very high standards for myself and then convincing myself I’ll never live up to them (I nearly cried when the loaf cake I was making didn’t come out looking perfect, even though it tasted great).  This isn’t all that different to how I usually am, but when I’m PMSy, it’s just harder for me to slap some sense into myself and say, “Shut up, you’re awesome.”  Instead, I just mope a lot.  Yay.

New dashboard. That’s weird.

I think I like it, actually, but I haven’t had a chance to poke around yet.  As I am accustomed to doing, I pretty much ignored this blog for the last few weeks.  NaBloPoMo?  No Go, So-So.  Turns out I am indeed not interesting enough to write a blog post every day for a month.  

I’ve done a little baking lately, and a lot of job hunting, but most days I do a whole lot of nothing, which doesn’t quite warrant a blog update.  I kept meaning to post about the Banana Muffins filled w/ Cream Cheese, but they were a bit of a disaster (looks-wise, that is; they still tasted fantastic).  I’m going to give the recipe another shot  before Christmas, but I’m uploading the pictures I took while I was making them to Flickr.

http://flickr.com/photos/bohopenguin

Also going up on Flickr today are the pictures of the Christmas tree!  All decorated and whatnot.  I still can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner.  Even more, I can’t believe it’s nearly been a year since my jaw surgery.  (Not that I’m complaining, I’d much rather be one year past it than still hung up on the couch with my jaw banded shut.  Although, I have put on five pounds since Halloween, so I wouldn’t mind being banded shut just for a week or two, given how much weight I dropped after the surgery.)  Anyway, Christmas is coming and I’m starting to feel utterly unprepared.  I’ve still got my Christmas cards to write up and send out — haven’t received any yet, which makes me feel like I’ve got plenty of time — and my holiday baking to figure out.  Who’s getting what for gifts, what to bake for Christmas Eve, what to bring to my cousin’s Christmas Day, etc.  

I’m kind of glad I haven’t gotten back into knitting yet this winter, because then I’d probably back myself into a corner trying to make people hats and scarves they’d never wear.  But I should get around to sewing the fleece scarf I promised my friend last winter… at least that can be knocked off in one evening.  

AND I’ve finally started making progress in the job hunt!  I have an interview Wednesday for a job that will train me in the field for which I’d otherwise be going back to school to train.  Granted, if the job doesn’t work out, it won’t be too big a blow because I could start courses in January for the aforementioned training.  So I’m a little panicky, but ultimately not too worried because I feel I still have pretty good options, even if it means working nights and weekends in retail while I do three-and-a-half months in school.

My ultimate goal, really, is to complete my career training and get a steady job, and *then* when I have the time and money, I’d love to either a) take courses in fine art photography or b) take courses at one of the local community colleges and work toward completing my degree.

In the meantime, though, I’m just going to keep baking, watching episodes of Doctor Who and Bones, and shopping for Christmas.  Something weird?  I’d actually love to go to a Christmas party, but none of the people I know seem to be having parties.  Or maybe they are and I’m not invited.